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Upwards Incursion

Padraig Campbell’s Upwards Incursion weaves together a haunting examination of agency and narrative.

“A unique collection of both detailed and mysterious comics that get under skin and stay with you.” 


— Liam Cobb, author of What Awaits Them



Upwards Incursion finds the horrors hidden in the formal layers of cartooning itself. Each story in this collection is a freefall through stranger and stranger realities until we arrive at the worst of them all, our own.” 


— Conor Stechschulte, author of Ultrasound



Upwards Incursion is an epic nightmare in the sincerest sense, one that imprisons you in a world of logical absurdity, where things feel fleeting and eternal, apathetic and vengeful, attractive and grotesque. Such horror told through invitingly supple and beautiful inks feels vulgar, like a succulent toxic fruit; Campbell has the kind of creative mind that I both deeply fear and deeply envy.”


— Jenna Cha, co-author of Black Stars Above & The Sickness



“A dark, delicate and disturbing work, an exploration of  the psychology of imagery with silence and mystery. A wonderfully distorted book by Padraig Campbell.”


— J. Webster Sharp, author of The Scrapbook of Life and Death



Cover Artist: Padraig Campbell

Cover Designer: Padraig Campbell & Sally Franckowiak

Padraig Campbell is an artist and cartoonist from the UK. As a child he was a firm believer in ghosts and aliens, and spent most of his time living in fear. He has since become intimately familiar with the feeling of fear, and is regularly seeking out and producing works that push or examine this sensation. He now spends most of his time drawing - when he’s not working (or living in fear.) He currently lives in Devon with his husband and their FIV+ cat, Fergus.

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Comic Collection

Genre

Release Date

04-28-2026

Page Count

160

978-1-949065-39-8

ISBN

$29.99

Price

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